Star Wars #6 is not John Cassidy’s last SW comic for Marvel… And Simone Bianchi will be drawing Star Wars #7, which is a one-shot Obi-Wan story on Tatooine. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the canon novelization of the 2015 film Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens. That was just about the only real news out of the Del Rey panel that wasn’t already revealed earlier in the con.Īs for Marvel, we got a few things: Greg Weisman will be writing the second arc of Kanan They will be doing an adaption of The Force Awakens, but not anytime soon. (Sadly, that’s just about the most we heard on Aftermath.) We learned that that book will contain three new short stories, one of which ties into Chuck Wendig’s Aftermath. This was already floating around, but it was confirmed that Del Rey is repackaging A New Dawn and Tarkin together as Rise of the Empire. This won’t be his first return to the franchise: He also wrote a prequel novel, The Approaching Storm, which came out ahead of Attack of the Clones. It’ll be out in eBook on December 18, the day the movie comes out, with a hardcover to follow on an unspecified date in January.įoster was the ghostwriter for the original Star Wars adaptation (credited to George Lucas) back in the ’70s, as well as the author of the first actual Star Wars novel, Splinter in the Mind’s Eye.

Alan Dean Foster is writing the novelization of The Force Awakens, Del Rey revealed today at their panel at Celebration Anaheim.

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